Written as much for myself as others, this originally started life as an account of Paris marathon in 2007 but eventually became a log of my running and fitness endeavours and challenges.
I'll never be an elite, even for my age, but with effort I'm getting better. Now aiming for the target of 3:15 in my next marathon.

Saturday, 19 March 2011

Friday tempo

I want tomorrow's run to be a bit of a Paris dress rehearsal - similar kit, more gels, similar time on my feet etc. As part of that I tried my hand at carb loading today. I suspect I got to about 450g of carbs (some 150g short) but will have gone a good 1500 - 2000kcals above maintenance. Needs a bit of fine tuning I think.

Anyway, yesterday's tempo run went pretty well.

Plan called for 2 miles warm up, 8 miles at 7:30 pace then 2 miles cool down and the results were:

8:29

8:15

7:38

7:27

7:27

7:25

7:34

7:32

7:30

7:20

9:08

8:57

That meant the middle 8 came out bang on the money really at 7:29. Pleased enough with that.